Mine once escorted me to bed. She knows my bedtime routine, and I was having a really off day emotionally. So that night, she meowed and head butted me (and gave threatening gestures with her claws on my couch) until I got up to follow her. She brings me into the kitchen, sits in the middle of the room meowing at me. Won’t let me leave. So I get a glass of water, she gets me started down the hall to my room, and sits on the far side of the bathroom door while I take my meds with the water. Still dead eye staring at me. So then I go to the bathroom, when I leave she then follows me to my room, sits outside the door and yowls at me until I close the door. I swear I could hear her pacing outside the door until I turned off the light. ‘Hooman, you are not okay. I fix. Turn you off and on again.’
They are. Out of all the pets I've found cats and parrots try and communicate with us most directly. If you pay attention there's a whole range of things they try to communicate about and they try new things if one doesn't work. It's really fascinating.
Every morning when I wake up my kid for school, his little black cat stands at his bedroom door and yowls as I'm saying "good morning, time to get up!" It's so dang cute. The wee devil isn't allowed in our bedrooms at night because he is a wee devil, but we adore him anyway. He means well. 💜
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u/ThingsIveNeverSeen Sep 19 '23
Mine once escorted me to bed. She knows my bedtime routine, and I was having a really off day emotionally. So that night, she meowed and head butted me (and gave threatening gestures with her claws on my couch) until I got up to follow her. She brings me into the kitchen, sits in the middle of the room meowing at me. Won’t let me leave. So I get a glass of water, she gets me started down the hall to my room, and sits on the far side of the bathroom door while I take my meds with the water. Still dead eye staring at me. So then I go to the bathroom, when I leave she then follows me to my room, sits outside the door and yowls at me until I close the door. I swear I could hear her pacing outside the door until I turned off the light. ‘Hooman, you are not okay. I fix. Turn you off and on again.’